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We always get a Family Fun Night box on Christmas Eve with new pj’s for the whole family and a fun movie to watch and yummy snacks! Then we all cuddle up in our new pj’s and watch the movie together before we go to bed! 🙂

One of my favorite memories was one of my husbands’ antics for Christmas morning for our four sons. He used to make up a “dummy” using a Halloween mask of a person and fill a body with straw and as the boys came downstairs there would be a guy playing a new video game system (if that was what they were getting) or climbing a wall if it was rock climbing equipment. They are now 39 down to 26 and all travel from all over to be here for Christmas.

I have always loved watching a marathon of Christmas movies with my mom on Christmas Eve. Then we have a really simple meal on Christmas so that we can enjoy visiting each other, not fussing over getting all the food ready. We are planning to have store bought pizza and hot wings this year.

This isn’t really about Christmas per se, but more wintry/seasonal. I’ve always looked forward to and LOVED seeing the first snowfall. …And yesterday morning, I woke up to see fresh snow outside!!!!!!! My spirits soared, the angels sang, etc., etc. 🙂 🙂

I loved it how every year, my mom would construct a miniature “skating rink” scene, to decorate something like a small table. She used a “pond” made out of cardboard covered in aluminum foil, and placed “snow” (cotton batting) around it along with little wintry trees, tiny birds, and so on. I think she had things like figure-skating mice… I just remembered this last night, when this giveaway post’s question crossed my mind. I’ve made a note to ask her about it, and I want to set up a little diorama of my own!

My mom and I have baked cookies every year come late-November into December. The tradition goes back to when my mom was little and baked goodies with her mom (as did I, until my grandma passed away). We bake at least a dozen varieties, and give them as Christmas gifts in the form of cookie trays, and I love every minute of it.

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Something that I love to do every year is to drive around the neighborhoods/streets that have a lot of super-decorated houses, with Christmas music on in the car. 🙂

Our family tradition is to have breakfast on Christmas Eve at my house then later in the evening we get together for games, prizes, fellowship, food and reading of the scriptures just before midnight. Then it’s gift exchange time. It is truly a family affair.

My favorite Christmas memory took place when I was a kid. It was Christmas eve and my brothers and sisters and I were looking at the snow out the window. We saw two guys dressed as Santa coming up our walk. We yelled down to them. They asked how many kids lived in the house. The next morning we found a candy cane for each of us on our porch.

My favorite Christmas memory was the first Christmas after my third and last child was born. Having all three of my children with me on Christmas morning was as blessed as it gets. Every year that they are with me, I am reminded of that first Christmas and just how blessed I am.

Since my daughter was small we have always given just one gag gift. We decided a few years ago to wrap an onion as nice as we could and all but one person knew who was getting it! We love to laugh and it started with my father because he did it often to me!

One of my favorites is taking a cross country train trip with my son to visit family for the holidays. He’s train obsessed so it was quite the experience for him… it helped to make up for his daddy being deployed that year.